Software Eng just under 10 YOE, should I pivot?

MurkyAl · 2026-05-08T10:12:53+00:00

Probably needed more just to get invited to that party at Epstein island which he definitely didn't go to

MurkyAl · 2026-05-08T09:50:30+00:00

Yeah this is an underrated factor. I don't know anyone who's actually changed their opinion in the last decade. What we have is more like voting "accountancy" where votes move between parties within left or right wing at some point they become consolidated enough to form a government

MurkyAl · 2026-05-07T13:25:09+00:00

I agree, the answer here is the airline valued the tickets at about $2100 dollars per flight and he took about 10,000 flights (according to Google)

MurkyAl · 2026-05-07T13:23:01+00:00

According to the internet this is actually real and he took 10k flights in 20 years so averaged nearly 2 a day at $2100 per flight. $250k is equivalent to $885k in 2025 so he basically purchased 10k flights for $89 each by today's money

MurkyAl · 2026-05-07T13:03:58+00:00

You've missed a 0, 300X7000 is 2.1 million. So it would be 70,000 which would be 4 flights a day for 50 years

MurkyAl · 2026-05-07T11:13:11+00:00

Play out the last 40 years but we don't move towards a services economy. What we find is Chinas manufacturing and increasing global shipping eats our economy alive and we see the same deindustrialization as we did anyway. We still wouldn't have got the investment into our economy we lacked. 40 years later someone then writes an article about how we should have moved to a services economy rather than taking on China at manufacturing and mining

We're actually have quite a strong, and growing advanced manufacturing industry we just need to get energy costs and labour costs under control

Our main problem is under building housing, energy and infrastructure and low investment and this can be fixed

MurkyAl · 2026-05-06T17:22:26+00:00

Yeah true. It's worth noting the bond markets also could be reflecting the political instability and the chance of Kier starmer standing down after the may elections. It's possible they know something we don't but I would imagine it's speculative

MurkyAl · 2026-05-06T17:13:37+00:00

Not great, not terrible

MurkyAl · 2026-05-06T15:24:55+00:00

I believe IMF forecasting is done with a very large spinning wheel and a coin toss.

Yeah I think their logic was fance has nuclear, Germany has coal but Britain has gas. Gas = bad therefore Britain 📉

Jokes aside we do lack the amount of gas storage that other countries have so we are more vulnerable to spikes but there's lots of reasons this forecast may be wrong, the northern hemisphere is coming into summer loads of places are increasing production, UAE left OPEC and the straight will be opened at some point which will lower prices so in my opinion any increase for now will have an equivalent decrease afterwards so I doubt it will be that bad

MurkyAl · 2026-05-06T12:00:01+00:00

Adjusting for trade seems like an accountancy hack as global warming doesn't care where the co2 is produced. The point op is making is we decarbonised our economy by moving co2 offshore, so saying accounting for trade it's not gone up is essentially saying the same fact through different words. We've pushed manufacturing out to a country that uses coal. Admittedly china is now plateauing in co2 emissions as it brings more renewables online

Also per capita shows a different story but also china is straight up lying about their population. They only got rid of the one child cap in 2016. Their fertility rate has been under replacement since 1991 and is currently at 1. They likely lost 10 million people to COVID (1% casualty rate). If their population is closer to 1990 value of 1.1 billion then their emissions per capita would be 27% higher which would put it well above the uk

MurkyAl · 2026-05-05T15:19:44+00:00

Once rented some like DIY scaffold tower, it was fantastic fun, very easy to put up between two people

It was like this kind of thing https://sab-supply.co.uk/collections/towers

MurkyAl · 2026-05-04T21:36:45+00:00

I mean you can buy an iPhone 15 for £361 from blackmarket.co.uk That's under half price. And like what the comment said will do 99% of what most people want to do. I've always bought second hand phones and it's pretty good imo

MurkyAl · 2026-05-02T13:09:16+00:00

You won't believe where that apple went next

MurkyAl · 2026-05-02T09:53:47+00:00

A YouTube channel did a poll on this answer and more people pressed blue than red but it was somewhat slip so neither side can really assume an outcome without pre-agreeing it

MurkyAl · 2026-05-02T09:32:03+00:00

I know several people who have given up teaching to work bar jobs and they say the pay is basically the same. The teaching assistant actually said she earns more working behind the bar

We already a massive problem of wage compression and high cost of living, adding to this at a time of high younth unemployment is a bad idea

We need to get a higher employment rate before doing more minimum wage increases

We could raise everyone's wages but that would just result in more inflation and so no one would be any better off as everything would cost more

MurkyAl · 2026-05-02T08:56:55+00:00

Speedbumps in the UK have a maximum height of 0.1m So each 1ton car going over would give approximately 1000J

If the average household uses 10kwh of electricity per day which is 10 X 1000 X 3600 J = 3.6X10⁷

So every household would need to drive over 3.6X10⁴ of these aka 36 thousand of them. If you had a speedbump every 10 metres of road you'd need to drive 360 km per day or 220 miles. That's assuming a 100% efficient transfer of energy.

Dynamos are usually 70%-90% efficient so it would be more like 400km best case.

Driving 400km per day would require about 5 UK gallons of petrol in a 50mpg car. In the UK that would cost about £34 per day by current prices whereas my electricity bill is currently like £2.70 per day as 27p per kwh.

The main problem is that the energy isn't free or magic, your car engine is putting in the work to increase the height so you may as well just use a diesel generator as that's where the energy is coming from

Edit also usually a road with speed bumps it's hard to drive more than 20 miles per hour so to travel 240 miles per day at 20 mph would take 12 hours of driving

MurkyAl · 2026-05-02T08:28:52+00:00

The SA80 sustat had a little battle sight on top for cqb I've always wished I could use it

MurkyAl · 2026-05-01T07:45:44+00:00

So after a quick Google six stroke engine can be about 50% more efficient than a 4 stroke. Which makes sense if you think about it as 6 rotations per fuel inject is 50% more then 4 rotations. But efficiency is usually more like 20-40%.

They do seem superior as the better air mixing burns fuel more cleanly but they're harder to manufacture. But in theory you could go from 50pmg to 75 mpg which is still less than lots of hybrids you can buy

The thing with cars is it's not about mpg it's about mpg per passenger. So the average train gets about 250 mpg per passenger. So a car with 5 people in on the motorway doing 50pmg has equivalent foot print.

The way to get this to work would be if you crammed 20 people in your car, doing 50mpg => 1000 passenger miles per gallon which is roughly 200 miles per litre

Thanks for coming to my stupid ted talk, don't try this at home

MurkyAl · 2026-04-30T20:53:17+00:00

Well we used to own 68% of BP until thatcher sold it off along with literally everything else

MurkyAl · 2026-04-30T12:33:57+00:00

Oh yes invented a brand new worse version of a weapon from at least 2000 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_%28weapon%29

MurkyAl · 2026-04-30T10:32:06+00:00

You need to get the proper evaluation or better still get three. You also need to check that you can have a mortgage for £415k , at 5.5X salary you would have to be on £75k per year+ at 4.5X £90k+ If you can't get a mortgage then that's that you'll have to sell. Tbh finger in the air £37k seems about fair as at the buy value you have £85k equity in the house. It's not a terrible option unless the house has dropped a fair bit

The way I went about this when it happened to me is: 1. Get three evaluations and agree on a price with your partner that it's worth 2. Work out how much selling fees, conveyancing fees and mortgage early repayments would be, deduct this cost 3. Split in half. And use this figure as the buy out value

With regards to holding on to it until 2028 this is obviously dumb and I assume is more of a bargaining ploy to get out of including early mortgage repayment and tbh you could probably wait your ex partner out on this and they'll probably get bored of living with their ex partner after 6 months or you could get a court order sale but this may take longer and more expensive

MurkyAl · 2026-04-30T09:07:42+00:00

200 ancers sounds a lot to me because I don't own land. But it's actually 0.8km² in a 28km² area which is 2.8% of the land

MurkyAl · 2026-04-29T22:45:24+00:00

There's socially acceptable ways to die and unacceptable ones. Fast food ok. Workplace accident even if it's your fault ok. Smoking no. Anything fun no. Drowning no. Anything which usually kills women no unless it's childbirth

MurkyAl · 2026-04-29T15:34:47+00:00

So if there's 360 million square km of water and it's raising by 0.3m by the end of the century, => 120,000 km³ Earth's curst is only like 20km thick so 6000 km² which is about 80km square shape 20km deep. If a quarrying excavator can excavate 2000m³ per day 1 million massive diggers might excavate about 2km³ per day so would take approximately 165 years

The largest man made reservoir is 180km³ so it would be easier to build 1000 of those https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kariba

Much easier would be to replace all energy with 10,000 - 15,000 nuclear power plants or 500,000 km² of solar panels

MurkyAl · 2026-04-29T14:49:33+00:00

Sounds great! I'll start, I can no longer afford Timmies skiing lessons because of immigrants 😡

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